350 State Horticvltvral Society. 



MEETING OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY AT PARKVILLE, OCTOBER 20, 1906. 



(Sample of one of the monthly dinners.) 



MENU. 



Elberta salads, wafers, pickles, quince jelly. 



Huntsman's roast turkey, Ben Davis boiled liam, Grimes Golden roast chicken, Joni- 

 than cranljerry sauce, Lady Sweet honey. 



York Imperial roast pig, Winesap apple sauce, McAfee Nonesuch baked potatoes, Ro- 

 man stem celery. 



Gano apple butter, Pumpkin Sweet pie, Bellflower pie, Champion cake. 



Maiden Blush coffee, Ooncord tea. 



Paradise Winter Sweet baked apples. 



Apples and cider from Graden and Lowmiller's orchards. 



SELECTION OF SCIONS. 



L. A. Goodman, of the Missouri Horticultural Society, in a dis- 

 cussion of scions, said m part: 



How much care do we exercise in the selection of scions for 

 our grafting stock? Are we not too careless in cutting them? 

 Do we select healthy trees, hearty trees, productive trees, those 

 bearing the most regularly, the best colored fruits and the best 

 quality? Do we select from individual trees, keeping these facts 

 in mind? If not, then have we not been propagating our trees to 

 decay? 



Individuality of a tree is a fact long lost sight of, and to our 

 shame and sorrow and loss be it said. This one thing we all notice, 

 and yet we have failed, until lately, to utilize tfiis fact. Certain 

 trees are more hearty, more vigorous, more productive, bearing 

 better fruit and better color, size and quality. It may be because 

 of more congenial surroundings or better selection of parentage, 

 but whatever it may be, we should use this individuality and per- 

 petuate and improve it by careful selections. I am sure that if 

 all trees in our orchards had thus been carefully selected, they 

 would be worth more than double their present value. 



Now, are we not sure that the trees thus grown from most care- 

 fully selected stocks and scions will give us better results than 

 our indiscriminate selections so universally practiced? Good two- 

 year-old trees 5 feet high, with low heads, and an even spread of at 

 least 7 to 9 branches coming out at right angles from the body of 



